Part 6 PUTTING AWAY CHILDISH THINGS

You Gotta Add Love

1 Corinthians 13: 1-13

The main ingredient to a healthy Christian walk is LOVE. Can you imagine baking a cake and forgetting to add flour? All the other ingredients will not blend well without something to hold them together. Now think of going to a church that is all about "God's business" and the people refuse to love their brother or sister walking with them. What kind of relationship do you really think we would have with Christ if this was our way of thinking? 

"What is love" Everybody seem to believe that love is a good thing. However, not all agree what is love. Is love the warm touchy-feely a person has when he is with a familiar person? According to the Bible, love is caring in action. Love isn't what we feel, but what we do." quote by Rich Deem

Always Examine Your Motive for Ministry

A person’s motives are always revealed when they do not get the recognition they feel they should have received. Can you handle NOT being up front or getting the credit for doing something for the Lord? If we are bothered because we didn’t get a “pat on the back” we need to check our motives.

Ask the Lord to Help You

Ask and you shall receive. If we are sincere and love as Christ loves, then we will be willing to do what we can to help God accomplish His goals for His glory for His kingdom. We must be mindful that it doesn’t matter how small or great our service is to the Lord. He would bless all of our efforts the same.

Aim for the Son

If we keep our eyes fix on Jesus, it will not matter whether we are recognized for our works by man. We know that God will honor our service. We need to take our eye off of man’s approval and look to the hills from where our help comes from.